Point Storage Manager Supports Additional NetApp Storage Platforms

PoINT Software and Systems GmbH has extended PoINT Storage Manager by supporting NetApp, Inc.‘ Clustered Data OnTAP 8.3 and StorageGRID Webscale 10.1 in version 5.1 of the company’s product.

By this release PoINT intensifies the cooperation in technology with NetApp and offers a storage management software to their customers which efficiently archives the rapidly growing amount of inactive data. As a result the primary storage is offloaded, leaving established data access methods for applications and end users unchanged.

As an independent software vendor, PoINT is NetApp Alliance Partner for more than five years. In that time frame the number of installations where PoINT Storage Manager is operational in tandem with NetApp storage products has steadily increased in mission critical applications areas. By supporting Clustered Data ONTAP (cDOT) and offering homogenously integrated tiering and archiving PoINT follows consequently the NetApp products offer of efficient, flexible and scalable storage platforms with all its inherent advantages. PoINT Storage Manager supports CIFS protocol and also NFS volumes which result in a multi-protocol archiving solution based on the cDOT storage platform. The special ‘Pass Trough’ mechanism of PoINT Storage Manager ensures that archived data is not restored into the cDOT system on read operation.

In addition PoINT Storage Manager includes the NetApp certified connector for StorageGRID Webscale which integrates the object-based StorageGRID seamlessly into the infrastructure. This solution is for efficient storage of large amounts of unstructured data and fulfills archival and compliance demands thanks to the software of the firm. Furthermore, PoINT Storage Manager integrates alternative storage technologies for archival (like tape and optical) and offers an interface to cloud storage (e.g via the S3 connector) resulting in storage architectures with different technologies and off premise storage capabilities.